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No way that was a late hit. When run at full speed, you can’t even get to two seconds after her released the puck. Very clean check. I don’t know if Markov had a previous injury, but that hit looked harmless… meaning not something that you see players flail all over the ice.

that’s clean. He finished his check. It wasn’t blind (Markov saw him), and it wasn’t from behind. I was telling my wife earlier tonight that Cooke is at a point where someone could behead him on the ice during play and people would shrug and respond only with “Karma”... but that’s just a hit. You could say he didn’t need to make that hit, but it’s the playoffs, EVERYONE has to make that hit in the playoffs.

Markov gambled by trying to lower his shoulder into it, and he came out on the wrong end.